A Critical Look at the Phillies Organization and Minor League Baseball
Today RHP Severino Gonzalez will make his debut for the Phillies this Spring Training against the Atlanta Braves. The start is little more than a cameo to give the righty a look at the majors while not sending a major league starter on a long bus ride. Severino will likely start the year in AAA, … Read more
It is just over two weeks until opening day so it is time once again to look at the spring training roster battles. The first version from two weeks ago is here. Locks: Hitters: Carlos Ruiz, Ryan Howard, Chase Utley, Freddy Galvis, Cody Asche, Odubel Herrera, Ben Revere, Domonic Brown, Grady Sizemore, Darin Ruf, Cameron … Read more
It was a big weekend for the Phillies prospects both at the major league level and the minor league level. This weekend saw the start of minor league games, including games against Canada and Puerto Rico. Lets jump into the reports by many sources. Friday: The first two pitchers for the major league club were LHPs … Read more
Chris King is live scoring the game. You can follow here and follow Chris (@Statsking). So far Gregori Rivero and Jose Pujols have gone back to back
The first set of minor league workout groups have been put up by the Phillies. Here are the first set of groups (first posted by Jim Peyton) There is not a lot to read into future placement here, but there are some early thoughts here. The pitching groups seem far from solidified with levels. Elniery … Read more
Week one of Grapefruit League play is in the books so it is a good time to take a first pass at the roster battles. Locks: Hitters: Carlos Ruiz, Ryan Howard, Chase Utley, Freddy Galvis, Cody Asche, Odubel Herrera, Ben Revere, Domonic Brown Pitchers: Cole Hamels, Cliff Lee, Aaron Harang, Jonathan Papelbon, Ken Giles, Jake … Read more
As Sunday’s game showed there are a lot of players in camp that make you scratch your head and run for Google. With the Phillies not sending any non-40 man prospects to big league camp, the bulk of players are 40 man roster members or non-roster invite veterans. You may have heard some of these … Read more
As much as I wish I was in Florida I am not in Florida, and so I must point you in the direction of others who are down there. Most of the focus so far has been on major league camp, but with more beat writers than stories it is pretty well covered (though as … Read more
A couple of reports yesterday gave some major hints at who will be in major league camp for the Phillies. The big name according to Jim Salisbury who will not be in camp is 2014 first round pick Aaron Nola. The initial reaction is that the dumb Phillies are holding down prospects because they want to … Read more